Prestwich Street Burial Ground: Memory contestations in Cape Town
This is the English version of this podcast.
You can also listen to the versions in French and Afrikaans.
Credits
Author: Robyn Humphreys
Script editing: Sophie Schasiepen with support from Andri Burnett
Narrators: Tshiamo Moretlwe and Mamello Makheta
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Executive Producer: Sophie Schasiepen
Acknowledgments
Robyn Humphreys would like to thank the Prestwich Place Committee for their commitment to fostering the memory of enslaved ancestors and their legacy in Cape Town. Special acknowledgments go to Bonita Bennet, Chrischené Julius, Tina Smith, Ayesha Price, Michael Weeder, Lucien Le Grange, and all the staff at the District Six Museum. This episode is one small outcome of their work.
Prestwichstraat-begrafplaas: Memory contestations innie Kaap
Dit issie Kaapse weergawe vannie podcast.
Djy kano narie French en English versions.
Kredits
Skrywer : Robyn Humphreys
Skrip editing: Sophie Schasiepen met support van Andri Burnett
Vetelles: Marlon Swai
Vetaling: Gaireyah Fredericks
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Concept en executive production: Sophie Schasiepen
Erkennings
Robyn Humphreys bedank graagie Prestwich Place Komitee vi hul vebintenis tottie bevodering vannie nagedagtenis vannie slawe voo’oues en hul nalatenskap innie Kaap. Spesiale dankbetuigings gan an Bonita Bennet, Chrischené Julius, Tina Smith, Ayesha Price, Micheal Weeder, Lucien Le Grange, en amalie personel byrie Distrik Ses-museum. Hierie episode is een klein ytkoms van hul wêk.
Full References / Vêre lieswêk
Bennet, Bonita. “Walking as Memorialization”.
Ernsten, Christian. "Resurfacing Colonial Dead." In: Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South: Excavating the Ruins of Cape Town's Rebirth (Springer, 2021), 41-61.
Friedling, Louise J. Grave tales: an osteological assessment of health and lifestyle from 18th and 19th century burial sites around Cape Town (unpublished doctoral thesis: University of Cape Town, 2007).
Ralphs, Gerard. "Green Point, Globalisation and the Remains of the Prestwich Street Dead." Archaeologies 4 (2008): 344-352.
Shepherd, Nick. "Archaeology dreaming: post-apartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead." Journal of Social Archaeology 7, No. 1 (2007): 3-28.
Weeder, Michael. "The Forced Removal of the Prestwich Dead." In Democracy X : Marking the Present, Re-presenting the Past, ed. by Andries Oliphant, Peter Delius, Lalou Meltzer (Brill, 2005), 26-29.